Ethan R. Sanders Associate Professor Department of History, Politics and Political Economy (HiPPE) Regis University 3333 Regis Boulevard, G-16 • Denver, CO 80221 • +1 303-964-5428 • [email protected] Education University of Cambridge, PhD in History, 2013. Thesis title: “The African Association and the Growth and Movement of Political Thought in Mid-Twentieth Century East Africa” Supervisors: Derek R. Peterson and John Lonsdale University of Cambridge, M.Phil. in Historical Studies, 2008. Wheaton College, M.A. in Church History, 2007. Baylor University, B.A. in History with Distinction, 2005. Academic Positions Associate Professor, Department of History, Politics and Political Economy, Regis University (May 2020-present) Assistant Professor, Department of History and Politics, Regis University (August 2014-May 2020) Assistant Professor, Department of History, Bridgewater State University (September 2012 – August 2014) Publications Articles, Book Chapters and Essays “James Aggrey and the African Nation: Pan-Africanism, Public Memory and Political Imagination in Colonial East Africa” International Journal of African Historical Studies 52:3 (2019): 399-424. “A Small Stage for Global Conflicts: Decolonization, the Cold War and Revolution in Zanzibar” Canadian Journal of History 52 (Winter 2017): 479-508. “Rethinking Patriarchy, Respectability and Women’s Mobility in Zanzibar,” review essay in African Studies Review 59 (December 2015): 225-230. “Women and Non-Ethnic Politics in East Africa, 1934-1947” in Gendering Ethnicity in African Women’s Lives, Jan Bender Shetler, ed. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015), 123-152. “Missionaries, Empire and African Studies,” review essay in African Studies Review 58 (April 2015): 237-242. “Conceiving the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union in the Midst of the Cold War: Internal and International Factors” The African Review: A Journal of African Politics, Development and International Affairs 41 (April 2014): 35-70. 1 “Close Encounters of the Muslim Kind: The CMS and Islam on the East African Coast, 1874-1911” Transformation 27 (October 2010): 248-260. with Mark A. Noll, “Evangelicalism in North America” in Twentieth-Century Global Christianity: A People's History of Christianity, vol. 7 ed. Mary Farrell Bednarowski (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2008) Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries Book Review: Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880-1940 by Elizabeth A. Foster in Fides et Historia 46 (Summer/Fall 2014): 106-108. Book Review: The East African Revival: History and Legacies edited by Kevin Ward and Emma Wild-Wood in Missiology: An International Review 41:3 (July 2013), 361-362. Book Review of Dhow Cultures and the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism, Commerce, and Islam by Abdul Sheriff in Africa Today 57:4 (Summer 2011), 133-135. “James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey” in Dictionary of African Biography Vol. 1 eds. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Emmanuel Akyeampong (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 115-116. “Fred Kubai” in Dictionary of African Biography Vol. 3 eds. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Emmanuel Akyeampong (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 433-434. “Harry Thuku” in Dictionary of African Biography Vol. 6 eds. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Emmanuel Akyeampong (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 14-16. Book Review of Pan-Africanism or Pragmatism? Lessons of Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union by Issa G. Shivji in Africa Today 57:1 (Fall 2010), 79-81. Book Review of Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa ed. Terence O. Ranger in Fides et Historia 41 (Summer/Fall 2009): 88-90. “Central African Christianity” in The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization ed. George Kurian (London: Blackwell Publishing, 2008). Presentations and Papers given Academic “Julius Nyerere, Radical Philosophers and His Moral Vision for the Future of Africa and the World” The Third Biennial African Philosophy World Conference: Building Africa’s Future on African Philosophy, University of Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 29 October, 2019 “Creating New Ethnographies: The Local and Global Thought of James Aggrey” Currents, Perspectives, and Ethnographic Methodologies in World Christianity Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey 16 March 2019 2 “Scripture in the Political Thought of Julius Nyerere” th 27 Annual conference of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, New College, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, United Kingdom 30 June 2018 “The African Political Thought of Julius Nyerere” th 59 Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association [USA] Chicago, Illinois 16 November 2017 “A Multi-Polar World: Decolonization and the Cold War in Zanzibar” SHAFR Conference Washington D.C. 22 June 2017 “James Aggrey and the Impact of Aural Biography on Egalitarian Politics in East Africa” African Christianity Biography Conference, Boston University 29 October 2015 “Crossing Boundaries and the Creation of African Consciousness: The Continental Influence of James Aggrey” 14th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas Austin, Texas 5 April 2014 “Narratives of African Intellectual History: Transnational Connections” Bridgewater State University Center for the Advancement of Research and Scholarship May Conference Bridgewater, Massachusetts 15 May 2013 “Conceptualizing East Africa: The Historical Writings of Paul Sindi Seme” The Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association Toronto, Ontario, Canada 6 April 2013 “Re-examining African Elite: The Political Activists of Colonial Tanganyika” th 55 Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association [USA] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 1 December 2012 “A Small Stage for a Global Conflict: Decolonization, the Cold War and Revolution in Zanzibar” th 7 International Seminar on Decolonization, Library of Congress Washington D.C., USA 1 August 2012 “Women and Non-Ethnic Politics in East Africa, 1934-1947” 54th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association [USA] Washington D.C., USA 17 November 2011 “The Women of the African Association and women's political activity in Tanganyika and Zanzibar during the 1930s and 1940s” African Research Forum Seminar, University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom 17 May 2011 3 “Islam and History in West Africa: New Approaches to Social and Economic Change” Chair and Discussant Africa Research Forum, University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom 16 March 2011 “Missionaries and Muslims in East Africa before the Great War” Henry Martyn Seminar, Westminster College, University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom 9 March 2011 “Rethinking the Origins of Political Thought in Colonial East Africa: The Local, Regional and Global Intellectual Influences on the African Association” African History and Politics Seminar, University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom 7 February 2011 “James Aggrey’s “African Nation” and alternative identities in Colonial East Africa” 53rd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association [USA] San Francisco, California, USA 21 November 2010 “Thinking outside the (Colonial) Boundaries: The Continental thinking of the African Association in the 1930s” African Studies Association [UK] Biennial Conference Oxford, United Kingdom 17 September 2010 “Inter-Religious Competition as a Catalyst for Intra-Faith Cooperation in East Africa, 1907- 1913” th 19 Annual conference of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, New College, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, United Kingdom 2 July 2010 “Missionary Perceptions of Islam in East Africa Before the First World War” African Studies Research Group, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies Oxford, United Kingdom 30 March 2010 “Africa’s Awkward Integration into the writing of ‘Modern’ World History” What is World History? seminar, University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom 9 November 2009 “A Post-Nationalist Reading of African Politics in late Colonial East Africa” World History Seminar, University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom 21 May 2009 “Mediating Territorial Activism with Local Political Energy in Colonial Tanganyika and Zanzibar: The Case of the African Association” History Graduate Student Seminar, University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom 27 Feb 2009 “Analyzing Chatterjee’s Moments of Departure, Manoeuvre, and Arrival in light of African Nationalism” Post-Colonialism: History and Theory seminar, University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom 17 Feb 2009 4 “Unexpected Encounters: Missionary perceptions of Islam in late nineteenth century East Africa” African History Seminar, University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom 13 May 2008 “Britain’s African Treasure: The history of modern Uganda” Baylor Capstone course in Uganda Kampala, Uganda 18 March 2008 Campus-wide and Community Talks Panelist with Erica Ferg, Forrest Huntington and Ian Zuckerman, “Understanding the US- Iran Conflict” Regis University Denver, Colorado 18 February 2020 “A History of Race Relations in Denver” Vision for Life series, “Racial Reconciliation” Fellowship Denver Church Denver, Colorado 17 February 2020 Panelist, “The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict: An Invitation to Learn Revisited” Church of the Transfiguration Evergreen, Colorado 29 April 2018 Panelist, “The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict: An Invitation to Learn” Church of the Transfiguration Evergreen, Colorado 11 March 2018 with Allie Holmquist, “The Syrian Conflict: A Civil War?” Regis University Denver, Colorado 18 April 2017 “Understanding